Trailer For Jay-Z-Produced Trayvon Martin Documentary Released: Watch

July 3, 2018

The first official trailer for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story reveals major points of the powerful six-part series slated to premiere on the Paramount Network on July 30th at 10 p.m. The first look at the docu-series opens with the chilling 911 calls reporting the shooting of the 17-year-old in Stanford, Florida.

The documentary will feature interviews with Martin’s parents, the family’s lawyer, Benjamin Crump, the Rev. Al Sharpton, Carmelo Anthony, Angela Davis and others. With moving images of Martin’s parents, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, the emotional clip follows the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and other social justice initiatives which caused a rift throughout the United States, beginning with the unarmed teen’s shooting on February 26th, 2012,

Watch the trailer for Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story below.

Following in the footsteps of 2017’s Peabody Award-winning docu-series TIME: The Kalief Browder Story, Rest In Power is Jay-Z‘s second, story-telling foray regarding the impact of the modern criminal justice system on black youth.